E A Paschos

Electroweak Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Concise introduction to electroweak theory for graduate students and researchers in elementary particle physics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781009402385
• ISBN-10: 1009402382
• Artikelnr.: 68319116

Autorenporträt

Emmanuel Paschos is Professor of Physics at the University of Dortmund, Germany. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Institute for Advanced Study, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Athens.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Road to Unification: 1. The electromagnetic current and its properties
2. The weak currents
3. The quark model
Part II. Field Theories with Global or Local Symmetries: 4. Yang-Mills theories
5. Spontaneous breaking of symmetries
6. Construction of the model
7. The Higgs mechanism in the Glashow-Salam-Weinberg model
8. The leptonic sector
9. Incorporating hadrons
Part III. Experimental Consequences and Comparisons: 10. Deep inelastic scattering
11. Charged current reactions
12. Neutral currents in semileptonic reactions
13. Physics of neutrinos
14. Heavy quarks
15. CP violation: K mesons
16. CP violation: D and B mesons
17. Higgs particles
Epilogue
Appendix A. Conventions, spinors, and currents
Appendix B. Cross sections and traces
Appendix C. Identities for quark bilinears
Index.